Posted on 03/26/2018 11:43:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Your iPhone will track and record places that you visit most often to provide better location-based data and suggestions across iOS 11. While these suggestions can be super helpful, you may not like the idea of your iPhone and iPad tracking the locations you frequent
If you value your privacy more than you do location-based data and suggestions, you can turn the feature off.
How to turn off Significant Locations on iPhone and iPad:
1. Launch the Settings app from the Home screen.
2. Tap on Privacy.
3. Tap Location Services at the top.
4. Tap System Services. It's all the way down at the bottom of the list.
5. Tap Significant Locations.
6. Enter your passcode, use Touch ID, or Face ID, to authenticate access.
7. Tap the Significant Locations On/Off Switch. When the switch is gray, that means the feature has been turned off.
(Excerpt) Read more at imore.com ...
The phone isn’t completely turned off unless the battery is dead or removed.
Same for any device with a soft touch power switch.
It doesn’t look like it’s on, but it’s on.
If the battery is in the device it has Power and can be turned on and off at will, in fact any app or aspect of the phone can be operated with sophisticated equipment all without your knowledge. The ONLY way to prevent it is to REMOVE the battery from the device. This goes for ANY and ALL Electronic devices that can communicate! including , yes your Car.
here is a newer article, but this been available since before 911!!!
Your Phone’s Battery Use Lets Spies Track Your Movements
https://gizmodo.com/spies-can-track-you-through-your-phones-battery-use-eve-1686978418
not surpised at all
Those instructions won’t stop location tracking.
It’s actually simpler. Just turn your radio off. You can leave the phone on if you want. The carrier won’t know what cell site you are closest to. If you are using WiFi you will have a IP address that the carrier could look at I suppose but that would only identify the city or metro area - so what?
If someone is actually going to the trouble of removing a cell phone battery to avoid tracking then they are likely engaging in nefarious activities and probably deserve to be caught.
You must remove the battery.
Nope. As long as the battery is in the GPS still is working.
If the radio is off and wifi is turned off the device is not communicating with the carrier. GPS? How is GPS info being updated if the device radio and wifi are turned off?
If you are worried disable or turn off GPS. I don’t even have GPS enabled on my Blackberry device. Not because I am paranoid but I never wanted to pay for services that use it.
I am not sure what problem you are trying to solve. Who are you paranoid about that is supposedly tracking you? If someone is involved in nefarious activities maybe they should use face to face communications. The nature of mobile communications requires the carriers to know where you are relative to nearest cell tower.
” WiFi you will have a IP address that the carrier could look at I suppose but that would only identify the city or metro area - so what?”
Law enforcement,with a subpoena,can get the exact location of an IP address. If they can get it the bad guys can get it if they know the right people.
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The IP address temporarily assigned to a mobile device will be out of a pool of IP addresses allocated to a data carrier. That exercise will only resolve to a city or possibly an area with a city. The IP is not static. Mobile device IP addresses don’t provide much granularity wrt location.
Thanks for that info.
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